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The inside Scoop on suppliers’ efficacy claims.

School leaders are right to seek evidence that a resource that may look great in a demo will actually produce GCSE gains at the end of the year. The concern is either the program may not produce gains at all or – if schools are targeting specific groups of pupils for intervention – it may not work with that population of pupils.

The Newark Academy in Nottinghamshire, is a mixed, fully comprehensive school that caters for students aged 11-18. Staff and students at the Academy strive to be the very best they can be, and to embed themselves in the heart of the community they serve.

With the government under increasing pressure to change it’s approach to unaccompanied child refugees already in Europe, it’s important to ensure that the educational sector is ready for their particular needs.

Part of the Landau Forte Charitable Trust, Landau Forte Academy Amington opened in September 2010, but is owned and operated as an independent educational organisation providing free full-time education for children aged 11 to 19 years.

On Wednesday 24th February the University of Salford will host the Future of Academies Showcase and Exhibition, and SAM Learning is proud to say that the company has been invited to lead a seminar. …..

The news that a number of leading Conservative politicians have called for a U-turn on the policies pursued by former education secretary Michael Gove, including the limiting of council control over academies, may or may not come as a surprise….